But in the rare instances when they're done right, they're done really right, and Simon McQuoid's Mortal Kombat, a reboot of the film franchise inspired by the series of fighting games that began with the 1992 arcade phenomenon of the same name, breathes new life into a genre that's been stagnant for too long. We recently compiled a very short list of the video game adaptations that don't suck, and even some of those required some defending. It's universally accepted in Hollywood that video game movies tend to be more miss than hit, that the bad ones are really bad, and that the good ones come as genuine surprises.